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Resources for LN 490 - German

Databases - English only

  • DTIC - Citations to unclassified documents in DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, many with full text. 
  • Janes - Source for information on defense, geopolitics, weapons systems, and security. Login with your westpoint.edu email address.
  • Policy File Index - Citations and abstracts, most with links to full text, for U.S. public policy research from over 350 think tanks, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.
  • Homeland Security Digital Library - Access to over 100,000 documents relating to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management.
  • Modern World History Online - Provides topical entries, biographies, maps, primary source documents, and timeline entries covering the mid-15th century through the present.
  • CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online - View a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs with scholarship ranging from university research institutes, NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, conferences proceedings, books, journals and policy briefs. This contains a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward.
  • Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals : AULIMP - Explore a subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. Founded in 1946, the Air University Library is the premier library in the Department of Defense (DOD), housing more than 2.6 million resources, and current topic-focused research guides.

Databases - English and German

  • Press Reader - Provides thousands of newspapers every single day, extracting text and images and making articles instantly translatable, searchable, and easy to read on mobile devices. Coverage is typically the most recent 90 days.
  • EBSCOhost - Provides access to a wide range of databases, many with full text. Chose to search one database or search all. **Can set interface language to German**
  • JSTOR - Provides access to scholarly journals and books in a wide range of disciplines.
  • Bibliography of Asian Studies - Explore a major multi-disciplinary index for the study of East, Southeast, and South Asia. It contains citations for Western-language journal articles, review articles, conference proceedings, chapters in edited volumes, and Festschrift published worldwide that relate to the study of Asia. The database aims to cover a broad range of subjects, with a special focus on the humanities and social sciences. Some of the subjects covered include anthropology, art, economics, history, language, literature, political science, religion, and sociology.

Skills Modules

  • JSTOR's Interactive Research Tool - JSTOR's new Generative AI-powered interactive research tool can provide a new way to engage with content, find related sources, and explore additional avenues of inquiry.  If you are unfamiliar with the basics of the JSTOR database, consider taking the JSTOR Database - Getting Started tutorial before learning about the interactive research tool.
  • JSTOR Database: Getting Started - Become familiar with the JSTOR database by creating an account and learning basic search functions.
  • Keenious - This course is an introduction to Keenious, a Generative AI tool that enhances academic research by providing contextual search suggestions and organizational tools based on webpage content analysis.
  • Databases - Introduction to Research Databases
  • Janes, DTIC, and FBIS - Short lesson about subject-specific databases at USMA Library.
  • Literature Review - Introduction to writing a literature review.
  • Using a Synthesis Matrix and Zotero to Organize Research - Introduction to using a synthesis matrix and the citation tool Zotero to organize research and literature reviews
  • Finding and Saving Resources in SCOUT - Learn the basics of finding and saving books and articles in SCOUT, USMA Library's discovery tool.

Generative AI Tools

  • Keenious - Keenious is a new type of academic search engine that recommends relevant research papers by analyzing your document with powerful artificial intelligence algorithms.
  • JSTOR's Interactive Research Tool - JSTOR's new Generative AI-powered interactive research tool can provide a new way to engage with content, find related sources, and explore additional avenues of inquiry.

Zotero

 

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